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Pattie Maes

Professor of Media Technology; Germeshausen Professor
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Arianna Huffington speaks at inaugural AHA Symposium

Arianna Huffington spoke at the inaugural AHA Symposium, during the opening panel: "What does it mean to flourish in the age of AI?"
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Making friends with your past and future selves

It’s what psychologists call self-continuity, and can improve your health and well-being
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AI Agents Are Here. How Much Should We Let Them Do?

WIRED’s advice columnist cracks open the publication’s archive to consider past promises about AI agents.
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Intelligence Augmentation w/ Prof. Pattie Maes

“We should think more about how we want to use this technology to help people."
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The Pioneer: Prioritizing People, Augmenting Human Intelligence

Prof. Maes's research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence.
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Chatbots Are Primed to Warp Reality

A growing body of research shows how AI can subtly mislead users—and even implant false memories.
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Mr. Maeda's Cozy AI Kitchen - Evolution of Agents with Pattie Maes

“We have to think a lot more carefully about how we design the interaction between people and AI.”
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MIT Neuroscience Reveals the Mystery Behind Aesthetic Chills. Here’s the Real Reason You Get Goosebumps

How the intensity of emotional experiences affects your focus.
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Early methods for studying affective use and emotional wellbeing in ChatGPT: An OpenAI and MIT Media Lab Research collaboration

Editor’s Note: This blog was written jointly with OpenAI and the MIT Media Lab. It also appears here. 
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Pattie Maes receives ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

This award is given to individuals whose research in human-computer interaction is considered both fundamental and influential.
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MemPal selected for 2024 Prototypes for Humanity exhibition

MemPal was selected in the Health category.
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The World at MIT: Pattie Maes

Professor Pattie Maes chose a career in computer science for practical reasons, but was drawn to the amazing research being done at MIT.
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Member Collaboration Story—At World Mental Health Day, Samsung + MIT Media Lab Highlight Sleep’s Impact on Mental Health

In honor of World Mental Health Day, Samsung is emphasizing its collaboration with the MIT Media Lab to explore the mind-body connection, a…
Article Research

AI simulation gives people a glimpse of their potential future self

By enabling users to chat with an older version of themselves, Future You aims to reduce anxiety + guide young people to make better choices
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AI Assistive Technology Offers Potential to Support Older Adults with Independent Living

Developed by MIT Media Lab, MemPal was co-designed with older adults, enabling them to shape a future where they can age comfortably at home
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‘Brain-computer interface’ allows user to move objects with mind

Professor Pattie Maes and research scientist Nataliya Kosmyna demonstrate a wearable brain-computer interface called AttentivU.
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Labbers awarded 2024 Education Innovation Grants

Four out of eleven selected research projects were from the Media Lab community.
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Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers

The startup Augmental allows users to operate phones and other devices using their tongue, mouth, and head gestures.
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Building AI agents with Semantic Kernel

In the 1990s, Professor Pattie Maes, head of the Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group, helped pioneer the concept of software agents.
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Three Media Lab papers selected for honorable mentions at CHI 2024

Authors include researchers from the Fluid Interfaces, Future Sketches, and Tangible Media research groups.
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Tangible Media paper most cited of ACM SIGCHI

The paper authored by Professor Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer is from CHI '97.
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MIT AI for Filmmaking Hackathon 2024: A Leap Forward in Creative Innovation

The second iteration of this hackathon featured 66 films and 400 participants from local institutions, other states, and countries.
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Second round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and applications of generative AI

A number of Media Lab researchers and alumni are included in the cohort.
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"AI Comes Out of the Closet" seeks to merge AI and LGBTQIA+ advocacy in a way as innovative as it is necessary

This research shows how AI can support LGBTQIA+ advocacy, how technology might help create a more accepting + understanding society.
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Trusting ChatGPT helps to improve it

In El País, researchers from Fluid Interfaces discuss their study that found users' beliefs about a chatbot influenced their interactions.
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Horse sense about AI

In Psychology Today, author William Poundstone considers research from the Fluid Interfaces group in light of the Clever Hans effect.
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Placebo effect shapes how we see AI

Research from the Fluid Interfaces group finds that users' perceptions of an AI chatbot influence their interactions with the technology.
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Media Lab research highlighted by MIT News in its wrap-ups of 2023 press coverage

The Media Lab is honored to have had its research and researchers highlighted in two 2023 end-of-year lists prepared by MIT News.
Video Videos

Wearable Reasoner

Wearable Reasoner: Towards Enhanced Human Rationality through a Wearable AI Assistant
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DayDreamNight

Produced in collaboration between CAST Visiting Artist Carsten Höller and MIT’s Fluid Interfaces group.
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Research Group Overview: Fluid Interfaces

Designing systems for cognitive support
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Joanne Leong and colleagues awarded MITili grant

Joanne Leong, research assistant in the Fluid Interfaces group, and her colleagues won an MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) grant.
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Is AI in the eye of the beholder?

Study shows users can be primed to believe certain things about an AI chatbot’s motives, which influences their interactions with the bot.
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Quick catnaps may spark creativity

The NIH reports on research from the Fluid Interfaces group and Harvard Medical School investigating the effect of naps on creativity.
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ACM ByteCast: Pattie Maes

On the ACM ByteCast podcast, Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes talks to host Rashmi Mohan about the passion that has shaped her career.
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Pattie Maes awarded 2023 MIT Integrated Learning Initiative grant

Pattie Maes, head of the Fluid Interfaces research group, earns MITili grant for AI-generated personalized learning project.
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Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes awarded seed grants from MIT Schwarzman College of Computing

Cynthia Breazeal and Pattie Maes awarded seed grants for projects exploring AI and workplace management.
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Unlocking the Power of Goosebumps: The Surprising Emotional Effects of Aesthetic Chills

A new study suggests that experiencing aesthetic chills, or goosebumps, during stimuli like music and films can lead to increased emotions.
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Behind the veil of hypnagogic sleep

Media Lab postdoc Adam Haar Horowitz discusses using “dream engineering” techniques to give people more control over their dreams.
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Pattie Maes named to the Germeshausen Professorship

Pattie Maes has been recently named to the Germeshausen Professorship—an MIT faculty chair supported by the Germeshausen Foundation.
July 21, 2023
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Kohler + MIT Media Lab: Innovation—for Better

Kohler and the MIT Media Lab share the vision of a better future by, with, and for all.We share the belief that remarkable outcomes can be …
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That moment when you’re nodding off is a sweet spot for creativity

A new study finds people are more creative after waking from the earliest stage of sleep, especially when guided to dream about a topic.
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Startup Creates Mouthpiece for Controlling Devices with Your Tongue

The device converts the user's tongue position and pressure into cursor actions by processing signals through a machine-learning algorithm.
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Devices to Help You Sleep, Robotic Boots and Other Technologies That Will Change Your Health

Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes and five other experts talk about emerging health and wellness technologies.
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Joe Paradiso, Pattie Maes, and Hiroshi Ishii at launch of Institute for Future Technologies in Paris

The Institute for Futures Technologies (IFT) is a new space within the Pôle Léonard de Vinci in Paris (La Défense), which aims to…
Article Research

Robot ChatGPT, GPT-4: "It's time to slow down the development of artificial intelligence"

Researcher Pattie Maes believes it's crucial to build machines to support our intelligence rather than replace it.
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Fall Meeting 2022: Life with AI

Professors Pattie Maes and Andy Lippman lead a panel discussion about emerging themes in artificial intelligence research.
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Pattie Maes reaches 500 peer-reviewed accepted papers

Pattie Maes, head of the Fluid Interfaces group and Professor of Media Technology, reaches milestone of 500 peer-reviewed accepted papers.
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History's Great Recommenders: From ancient times to tomorrow

Michael Schrage considers the past, present, and future of recommendation engines, including Pattie Maes's advances in software agents.
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The Media Lab @ the MIT Museum

We're thrilled to welcome our friends at the Museum to Kendall Square!
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MAS.S63 Engineering Sleep and Dreams

Our MAS.S63 ClassOne of the clearest ways to build an interdisciplinary research community is to teach a multifaceted class. Our team—Dr. P…
Sept. 30, 2022
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Riverview, the MIT Metaverse: A Parody of Special Guest Greg Daniels' hit series, Upload

On the occasion of Emmy-award winning writer and director Greg Daniels' guest lecture at the "Virtual Beings and Being Virtual"  works…
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Honorary doctorate from Open Universiteit for worldwide AI expert Pattie Maes

The honorary doctorate will be awarded on Friday 23 September 2022 during the Open University's dies natalis celebrations.
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MIT Integrated Learning Initiative project focuses on focus

AttentivU smart glasses designed to help wearers tune into a task and tune out the world.
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Intelligent Agent. How Pattie Maes Almost Invented Social Media

Pattie Maes was inventing the core principles behind the social media age when Mark Zuckerberg was still in kindergarten.
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Registration for the Virtual Beings and Being Virtual Workshop

The workshop sessions will be livestreamed on the MIT Media Lab channel on April 14. The onsite participation is by invitation only—offered…
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Characters for good, created by artificial intelligence

Researchers encourage positive use cases of AI-generated characters for education and well-being.
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Pattie Maes, Nataliya Kosmyna, and collaborators guest-edit special issue of Frontiers in Neuroscience

The special issue is titled "Neurotechnologies for Human Augmentation." They also co-edited an editorial piece in the same issue.
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Research team wins Best Poster Award at IEEE BSN 2021

A research team including Fluid Interfaces group members Nataliya Kosmyna and Pattie Maes received the Best Poster Award at IEEE BSN 2021.
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Deepfakes are like Hollywood body doubles

Fluid Interfaces head Pattie Maes and researcher Pat Pataranutaporn discuss the ethical implications of deepfake technology.
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ML Focus | July 2021: New Health | Fluid Interfaces

Wednesday July 14, 2021 …
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Emerging Interfaces for Human Augmentation

Pattie Maes talks about optimizing technology to be used by people, through fluid, interactive, immersive, and wearable systems.
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Fluid Interfaces team receives Persuasive 2021 Best Paper Finalist award

For the paper, "Improving Context-aware Habit-support Interventions using Egocentric Visual Contexts."
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Media Lab Perspectives: You are RIGHT! Right? with Juan Enriquez

Thursday April 15, 2021 …
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Media Lab @ MIT Space Week 2021

The Space Exploration Initiative and Space Enabled research group are participating in this year's Virtual MIT Space Week.